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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
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Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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More quotes by Mike Tyson
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
Mike Tyson
My career has been over since 1990.
Mike Tyson
My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.
Mike Tyson
Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.
Mike Tyson
I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
Mike Tyson
No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
Mike Tyson
Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.
Mike Tyson
I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
Mike Tyson
I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
Mike Tyson
People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
Mike Tyson
I don't have to be that gentleman [baddest man on the planet] anymore. Now I have to be this guy. And in order to be this guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.
Mike Tyson
I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.
Mike Tyson
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson
Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.
Mike Tyson
This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, Who am I? Where's my heritage?
Mike Tyson
Some people are faster than others I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.
Mike Tyson
Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
Mike Tyson
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
Mike Tyson
I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
Mike Tyson
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
Mike Tyson
